> why does this matter? You can already use exFAT on Linux via FUSE It means that exFAT will be available everywhere. For instance, right now if you want exFAT

> why does this matter? You can already use exFAT on Linux via FUSE It means that exFAT will be available everywhere. For instance, right now if you want exFAT support on Fedora or RHEL, you have to enable rpmfusion and install fuse-exfat and exfat-utils from there; once it's in the upstream kernel, it will be available on a default install.